Angel Street-- better known as Gaslight-- by Patrick Hamilton, Fells Point Corner Theatre, 2022. The play is the origin of the term "gaslighting." Using a critical intersectional feminist interpretation, we worked to disrupt the white patriarchal focus of the original text and present a subversive counter-narrative that centered survivors, both onstage and in the audience. As the director of this production, I worked with the cast, using Elaine Aston’s guidelines (inspired by Jo Spence’s term “cultural sniping”) for feminist restaging of canonical plays, to expose and critique the misogyny in Hamilton’s text while emphasizing the journey and empowerment of the central woman character who survives a harrowing experience of domestic violence.

Pictured: Tatiana Nya Ford as Bella Manningham and Rob Vary as Jack Manningham. Production photo by Kiirstn Pagan. 

High School Coven by Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin at The Strand Theater Company, 2023. This play follows four high school students as they pursue justice for sexual violence and find support and strength within their personal bonds, themselves, and possibly something greater than themselves. Production photos feature Tatiana Nya Ford as Trina, Jess Rivera as Rachel, NJ Saroff as Liana, Libbey Kim as Naomi, Betse Lyons as Shopgirl, and Greta Boeringer as Principal Oversham. Photography by Shealyn Jae.